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A perfect way to get the taste of summer is by growing herbs indoors during the cold months. Most people don’t realize just how easy it is to have your own kitchen herb garden. It doesn’t matter if you decide to start your garden from scratch or from a handy herb garden kit, you’ll find everything you need to know here.

You also can save money on your grocery bill without compromising on flavor by growing your own herbs indoors during the winter. Mediterranean herbs like rosemary, thyme, parsley, oregano and marjoram have a reputation for being hard to grow indoors—but it's easy to keep these delicious culinary herbs alive all winter long if you give them the right amount of light, water and humidity.

Now, more than ever before, people are beginning to realize that good health does not refer to an absence of disease. Rather, it is a balance of physical, mental, emotional and social wellness. Herbal health care is becoming increasingly popular because herbs provide natural stimulants that activate the body's own defence mechanisms.

Due to our sedentary lifestyle, processed foods and industrial advances, we have managed to discover a large number of chronic illnesses that were virtually unknown in the past. Medicines used to treat these diseases have side effects. In time, these medicines also become ineffective as the human body develops a resistance to the medicine. After battling it out for many years, practitioners of conventional medicine are finally willing to admit that herbs (medicinal, tea and even cooking) are an effective source of healing.

Today, consumers are turning to herbs for increased health and vitality, as well as for more domesticated duties such as decorating and cooking. Growing herbs can be an easy process and the results can be used to add flavor to meals, make soothing and relaxing herbal teas or for making fragrant sachets, potpourri, scented candles and oils.

Herbs from the home garden provide the path to a slower pace of life. What could be more relaxing than a sweetly scented cup of herbal tea. A warm cup of lemon balm tea can make life's troubles vanish, a tall tumbler of an iced peppermint infusion will take the heat out of the fieriest summer day. A sprig of lemon verbena thrown into the teapot with your favorite tea will bring a smile to the faces. Herbal teas can be simple, consisting of one type of herb, or a more complex blend of flavors with many different combinations of tea herbs.

Within this blog, you will find information about growing herbs in the garden and indoor herb gardening, as well as information about growing medicinal herbs. Find out how easy it is to garden when you have the Moon working for you! Gardening by the Moon will help you plan when to sow, plant, water and harvest. There are also sources for getting supplies and equipment for your own home herb garden.

We grow herbs in the summer garden and have on occasion grew dill and basil indoors, but we them mainly for culinary purposes. I think herbs are important, but what's needed is something that shows home growers how to use their herbs for more than just cooking. I couldn't go out, dig up a purple cone flower and know how to use the roots to help a sore throat. I know how to grow herbs, I just don't know how to use them medicinally.

Wow, great post with good information. For the last 4 or 5 years we have been growing a herb garden ourself and I have really enjoyed growing, harvesting and making useful of the herbs. We bring a lot of our plants in for the winter so we don't lose them to the cold. Have a great week!

great site! I love the infos. I use oregano as my natural meds for respiratory illness. and now i am searching for good herbs for facial purpose maybe something that can help smoothen the face. Thanks! great site.

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I have always loved gardening this past year I received a greenhouse for christmas, and started my herbs indoors for the first time, I am so glad I have found your site the information is amazing. I have recently started a blog of my own,I would really love you to stop by and tell me what you think. http://theindoorherbgardener.com I am happy to say one day is not enough on this blog. thanks for the amazing articles.

Hello,Would you object to my using some of your articles on a new herb gardening site that I'm planning, maybe about one every three or four weeks to mix in with other content. I would, of course include a link back to your site?With regards,- David Murray -ps. I should have said that it will be a .uk site, not .com